Chapter three as promised. I hope you all enjoy it and I apologise for any spelling mistakes etc.

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Edited: 23-04-20

The pain in my head was what woke me. The sharp sting enough to rouse me from the darkness that had taken over when my head hit the ground. I recognised the room I was in to be one from a hospital, perhaps I had spent too much time in places like these the last couple of months.

I panicked at first, my mind going back to the accident but calmed down when I saw Nana perched on the chair beside my bed.

"Hey sweetheart," she mumbled softly, getting up from her chair, pressing a kiss to my head. From the closed blinds at the window and the small light that was on, I could only guess that it was evening. Had I been here that long?

"My head," I mumbled trying to raise my hand to touch the sensitive spot only to stop when the IV tugged at my vein. Oh, I hated needles.

"We're just waiting for the doctor to get back to us," she answered, obviously understanding that I was asking a question.

The thought of something happening to my head once again had my eyes watering. The last time I had a head injury I'd been stuck in the hospital for six weeks, after being in a coma for a month.

I had missed the funeral of my parents, my brothers wanting to get it done quickly so they could focus on me. I wish they would have waited until I could attend, but I knew they did what they thought best.

The door opened then and my hope that it was the doctor was dismissed as a familiar dark-haired girl and a blond boy stepped in.

Alice and Jasper.

I didn't understand what they were doing here, I mean I hadn't spoken to them, barely saying hello to Alice when she sat near me in Art. She was one of the only students I knew in the class, but seeing as the class was so small we basically got a large table to ourselves, there was no need to share.

"Good evening, Jasper, Alice," Nana greeted them, giving them both a smile as they closed the door behind them.

I wondered at first how she knew them, then realised she worked here as a nurse. She worked with Dr Cullen which meant she would have met Alice and Jasper sometime throughout the last couple of years.

"Evening, Cora," Alice chimed, giving her a bright smile as she danced over to me. She did dance, there was no other way to describe the way she moved from the door to me. Jasper had this soft smile on his face, something I had never seen on his face before.

At school, he always looked so tense, like he was in pain all the time. But here, now, he looked relaxed and I kind of liked the smile on his face. It made him look more handsome than I thought before, not that he wasn't handsome to begin with.

"How are you feeling, Callie?" she asked, giving me a smaller smile, but it was just as bright. Could she ever not be happy?

"A bit confused about what happened, but I'm feeling good," I told her, trying to remember what happened, only to get a headache when I pressed on the blurry memory. Alice exchanged a glance with Jasper, the female companion looking slightly worried.

"Well Mike was pestering you about going on a date, you and Bella were making your way down the front steps of the main building. Mike pulled you back then let you go, you lost your balance and fell down the stairs. You managed to miss all the steps with your head, but smacked it on the ground when you landed. Emmett carried you to the nurse's office," she explained, giving a brief explanation of what happened.

I barely understood what she was saying because of the speed she was talking, but I caught up with her words.

"Oh," I mumbled, raising my left hand up to my head, thankful this arm had no needles in it. "How's Bella?" I asked, remembering how panicked she was before I passed out.

"She was a little shaken up but she's fine now," Jasper answered, his voice sounding smooth as honey with a hint of an accent.

"That's good, don't want her worrying about me," I muttered, thinking about Bella and how she was probably sitting at home worrying about me even though I wish she wouldn't.

I turned to Nana then, wondering if she had been worrying about me as well. What she must be going through because of me. First, the accident that took her daughter and son-in-law and now having to put up with me in the hospital.

"I'm okay, sweetheart."

"I'm so sorry, Nana, I've made you go through this again," I said softly, trying to stop my hands from shaking as the panic began to set in. Nana ran her hand over my head, her fingers flattening my hair.

"No need to worry, sweetheart, you make my life exciting for a change," she teased, looking to Alice as she let out a bell-like laugh. Jasper went to say something, but the door opening cut him off.

A blond doctor entered his eyes the same butterscotch colour as Alice and Jasper's. He was pale, like his adopted children and he was also very beautiful like his children.

Were the people around here sure that they weren't all blood-related? How could they all look that amazing and not share blood? Perhaps they only adopted beautiful children because they were beautiful. I had heard about Dr Cullen's equally beautiful wife.

"Miss Flynn, I've got your result from your scans," he said, waving the folder in his hand as he looked at Nana. "Evening Cora, I hope Alice and Jasper haven't bothered you."

"Of course not, Carlisle, they've been very helpful in reminding Callie what happened this afternoon," Nana told him, rubbing her fingers against my hand as I pushed myself up to sit.

"Is my head okay?" I asked, wanting to know if I'd have to stay any longer in the hospital.

"There was a small crack on the x-ray, but I'm not too concerned about it. From your scan, there doesn't seem to be any blood or fluid building up, so I'm hopeful that it'll be the same tomorrow morning when you have another scan. If all looks good we can discharge you tomorrow," he said, flipping through the chart, letting Nana see when she asked. She knew what she'd be seeing, with her being a nurse.

"I'll have to stay overnight?"

"Unfortunately." Carlisle smiled, the amusement clear on his face at the disappointment in my tone.

At least it was Friday, I wouldn't want to miss school and make a scene about missing out on class.

"Don't worry, Callie, you won't be missing school," Alice added as if she knew my thoughts. I sent her a smile, covering my mouth as I tried to hide my yawn.

"Let's leave the patient for the night," Carlisle stated, waving his children out and pardoning himself.

Nana looked at me as she rose from her seat. I could already tell she was going to leave me here. She pulled my phone from her pocket, placing it on the sheet that covered my legs.

"Bella's been texting you all night. I think you should call her or reply and let her know you're alright. Maybe you can ask her to pick you up if you get the all-clear as I'm working a shift." She leant down, pressing a kiss to my head, brushing my hair behind my ear. "I'll see you in the morning, you get some rest okay." I nodded at her words, watching her leave the room.

Looking down at the phone on my lap, I picked it up and fired off a text to Bella, letting her know I was awake and that my scans came through clear and that I should be free to go tomorrow morning and wondered if she could pick me up.

I settled down in the bed for sleep as her text came in, confirming that she'd be here to pick me up if I gave her my discharge time and she was happy to hear that I was okay.

Setting my phone on the bedside table, I pulled the blankets up to my neck and tried to get comfortable.

I woke that morning with a throbbing headache and was tired despite the sleep I had just woken from. Dr Cullen had my scan moved up once he saw me and it was him that gave me the unfortunate news.

Slight swelling of the brain.

Nothing too bad and it was only a small section, but they wanted to keep an eye on it with my history of head injuries. Which meant I was to stay at the hospital, so they could monitor it.

It seemed to me that Dr Cullen wasn't too bothered about it. Surely as a doctor, he should seem more concerned. Nana came to visit on her shift, saying that she trusted Carlisle's judgement and that I should.

What was with her calling him Carlisle? Wouldn't she have to call him Dr Cullen seeing as he was her boss?

"Good morning," came an excited voice. I looked to the door to see Alice barging in, her arms full of what looked like junk food and fashion magazines. She dumped the food on my lap and waved the magazines in front of my face in excitement. "I thought you'd like the company. My Dad told me you'd be in here for a while," she explained, noting the confused look on my face.

"Umm okay," I replied, pulling at the large bar of chocolate that was obviously from the UK. "Not to sound rude or anything, Alice, but what are you doing here?"

"I know we don't really talk but I've wanted to be friends with you since you arrived, but my siblings were against it." Okay, what had I done to have her siblings hate me? "It's okay now though, they all love you, expect Rosalie, but she doesn't like anyone."

"They don't know me; how can they love me?" I wondered what must be going through the Cullen's heads.

"But we will get to know you, so we will love you," she said, a giant smile on her face. "I thought we could look at the latest fashion and you can help me pick out some outfits." She was too energetic for me. This was when I needed Bella, maybe I could send her a text and she could come save me.

"Alice," a rough voice warned from the door and I looked to see Emmett blocking the doorway.

"Emmett, have you come to join us?" Alice asked, her bubbly tone almost infectious, almost.

"Umm, I'm not sure what you're doing here, Alice, but it looks like you're torturing the girl," Emmett said, causing a smile to grow on my lips.

It was as if he had just read my mind. Not that I minded Alice, it's just, I wasn't really in the mood to look at fashion magazines.

"It's nice to see you, Emmett," I said to him, directing my eyes from Alice to Emmett. Had he always been so big? "I wanted to thank you for carrying me to the nurse yesterday, Alice told me what you did."

"No problem, Callie, just helping where I could." He gave me a large grin, his eyes taking in the IV connected to my wrist and the junk food on my lap. He held his hand up, waving a compact travel kit of chess. "I thought we'd play a game? Unless you want to lose your mind in fashion?"

"Chess sounds like a plan," I exclaimed quickly, sending Alice an apologetic look as she glared at me. "I'm not any good though so you'll have to take it easy," I added seeing a victorious smile grow at my words.

I had been held at the hospital for the rest of the week as the swelling went down, but Dr Cullen wanted to keep me in due to my recent history.

The first day was spent with Alice and Emmett and the two of them visited every day after school to keep me company. They made quick excuses to leave when Bella came to visit though, something that didn't go amiss by us.

I reverted to my old habits of being in the hospital after the second day; when Dr Cullen came to find me, he found me in the children's ward playing with the children there.

When I woke after my four-week coma, I stayed for another six weeks and as they wouldn't let me do anything I spent most of my time with the children, keeping them company.

I was playing with two little girls, Holly and Katie when I felt eyes on me. Thinking it was Dr Cullen, I looked up at the viewing window, a large smile on my face, yet it dropped slightly when I saw who it was.

Edward Cullen was staring at me, his butterscotch eyes burning into my face. He looked frustrated as if he was trying to figure something out and couldn't understand it.

His eyes locked with mine and I slowly rose from the floor, running my fingers through the girl's hair as I whispered goodbye.

When I left the room, Edward stayed where he was, not running off for once. The air was tense between us, the awkwardness growing as I moved closer to him and he just stared.

"Hello, Edward," I said softly, giving him what I hoped was a soft smile. He tensed at my words, his eyes flashing over my face before he breathed out sharply.

"Calliope," he returned. His voice was everything I imagined it to be. Smooth and rough at the same time. It was like dark chocolate, bitter and sweet. It made my stomach flutter in excitement.

"Callie is fine," I told him, not liking the use of my full name. It brought up too many memories of my mum.

He didn't reply, his eyes staying on my face in such an intense manner. His gaze was nothing like Alice's or Emmett's, though those two often gave me weird looks, it was nothing compared to Edward.

The few times Jasper had seen me, he had spent a lot of time looking at me as if he was trying to understand something. But Edward, Edward hadn't even met me, and he was giving me a creepy look.

"What are you doing here, Edward?" I asked when the silence got too much for me.

"I came to apologise for our first meeting," he said, sounding as if it was obvious why he was here.

I frowned, not understanding what he was talking about. We hadn't had a first meeting unless you want to count the weird behaviour of him when I first saw him in the parking lot.

"We haven't had a first meeting, Edward." I shifted, leaning against the wall as he tensed slightly at my movements. He was being weird. I could see how stiff he was, the way he was suppressing his breath and the way he tilted his body away from me, "You skipped school the first week I was there, and I've been here the second week."

"You're right, but I wanted to apologise for the way you saw me on your first day. I've been meaning to introduce myself to you." He seemed to step forward before falling back on his heels.

"I already know who you are," I pointed out to him. It seemed weird that he was here now trying to make things right. "Did Alice send you?" He stiffened at the mention of Alice but made no mention of why he was here. "I told her not to bother. She wanted us to meet before I went back to school but there's no point, right? You don't seem to want to communicate with me."

"I do—"

"You shouldn't lie, Edward. It doesn't seem to suit you," I told him already knowing he was lying to me. It was something I always knew.

I got a feeling that let me know if a lie was being told. The hairs on my arms seemed to rise and my fingertips seemed to tingle when someone lied. I had always been able to tell when someone was lying, it was just like how my brother, Donnie, always got an itching feeling just before something bad happened. He was also rather good at figuring out liars which helped him in his job as a junior Private Investigator.

"How did you know I was lying?" he asked, a small dip between his eyebrows that made me ponder his thoughts.

"So you were lying then?" I said, feeling smug at the startled look on his face.

"No. Yes. I don't know," he sighed out, the frustration clear as he shifted his hand through his hair. Even when he was frustrated he looked good.

"I've got to get back to my room, your father will be there soon to do some tests," I told him, nodding down the hall to where my room was.

"May I walk you?" I chewed on my lip as I thought about it and frowned when I realised I had started to copy Bella.

I hadn't even spent two weeks with her yet and I was already coping with her habits.

I rolled my eyes at the thought but nodded my head at Edward, allowing him to walk beside me to my room.

When we reached my door, I could hear Alice and Emmett talking in my room. The pair of them looked up as I entered, both looking slightly surprised to see Edward there.

"Edward," Alice said, rising from the seat she had deemed as hers. Emmett sat at the bottom of the bed, his usual seat whenever we played any board games he brought with him.

I could see Monopoly set up in the middle of the bed and I sighed as I saw that Emmett had already set it up to how it was yesterday. The game went unfinished, but Emmett wanted to carry on with the game as I was winning, and he didn't want to lose.

"What are you doing here, Alice?" Edward asked, looking between his sister and the Monopoly game on the bed.

"We come and see Row every day," she reminded him as if he should have known it. Shouldn't he have though? I mean, he did live with them, surely, he would have known that they come here a lot. I smiled at Alice's use of my nickname, something she insisted on calling me after she heard Nana and Bella use it.

"I'm trying to beat her in this," Emmett muttered, nodding to the game before looking at me with raised eyebrows.

He was basically asking me what was keeping me from joining him. I rolled my eyes as I left Edward's side and climbed into the bed with Emmett's help.

I had noticed over the last week how cold they were. Alice and Jasper were just as cold as Emmett, and Dr Cullen was cold as well. I found it strange but decided it wasn't important.

They took the time to come here throughout the day, even during school time when I knew they should have been there with everyone else. They all had the same eyes as well. The same butterscotch yellow that often changed from amber to black and then went back to the bright butterscotch.

Edward frowned at the action between me and Emmett but said nothing as he stepped into the room, letting the door close behind him. He leant against the wall by the door as Emmett started our game and Alice took up her role as the banker.

We had decided since Alice didn't want to play that she'd make the game fair by being the banker so neither one of us could cheat.

"Hah!" I yelled when Emmett rolled the dice and he landed on one of my buildings. "You owe me now, Rocky, hand it over." Emmett sighed in defeat as he grudgingly threw me the money he owed me, glaring at Alice as she let out a giggle.

"Rocky?" Edward asked, ignoring the look Emmett gave him as he stepped closer. He seemed to have a look at what I could only assume jealousy on his face. What was he jealous about?

"Yeah, you know cause he's like a mountain," I pointed out, giving Edward a look. Shouldn't he be able to see what I meant?

A small smile peered on his face and I felt butterflies fluttering in my stomach. Well, they were until a pillow hit me in the face.

"Emmy!" I shouted as the pillow dropped into my lap. I frowned at Emmett, pouting my lip as he chuckled giving me a dark look.

I glanced at the board, noting that he had taken the money from the middle. Glancing up at him again, I grabbed a pillow and threw it at him.

"Hey," he exclaimed, moving back and falling off the bed with a loud bang. I fell against my pillows as I clutched my stomach as I tried to stop myself from laughing.

"It seems everyone's in a good mood," Carlisle said as he came into the room, closing the door behind him. I gave him a bright smile as he ignored Emmett on the floor. "I'm glad to tell you that you'll be getting out of here today."

"Really?" I asked, finally happy that I'll be out of this place.

After spending a lot of my recent months in the hospital before I got here I didn't really want to spend any more time locked up in these white rooms.

"I'm not lying, you're free to go. Your scans came through clear and your x-ray showed that your head has healed. I'm happy to let you go." He flipped through the papers on his clipboard signing the release forms. "Your grandmother said she'll sign the forms when she gets into work tonight but I'm happy to let you go now."

"Nana's in Port Angela's until her shift, I'll have to call Bella to come to pick me up," I told him, hugging a pillow to my chest as I was finally free to leave.

"We'll drop you off," Alice suggested, the smile on her face growing as she lifted the duffle bag by her feet. "I'm so happy I brought you some clothes now. You have nothing to wear home and I won't let you step foot out of here wearing that." She nodded to the hospital gown and grey jogging bottoms I had on.

"I hope you didn't go overboard, Alice, I'm leaving the hospital, not going to a press conference," I said to her, knowing she'd have some fashionable outfit ready for me.

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